There are 11 ways to get from Lugano to Linz by train, bus, car, plane, or train (Trenitalia)
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Train via Zurich
best- Take the train from Lugano to Zürich HBtrain Ic2 / ...
- Take the train from Zuerich Hb to Linz Hbftrain Rjx
9h 28m€142–295Bus
cheapest- Take the bus from Lugano to Munich central bus stationbus FlixBus N76 / ...
- Take the bus from Munich central bus station to Linz Industriezeilebus FlixBus 882 / ...
10h 20m€41–75Drive 644.1 km
- Drive from Lugano to Linzcar 644.1 km
6h 40m€113–163Train to Milan Linate Airport, fly to Vienna International Airport, train
- Take the train from Lugano to Seregnotrain
- Fly from Milan Linate Airport (LIN) to Vienna International Airport (VIE)plane LIN - VIE
- Take the train from Flughafen Wien to Linz Hbftrain
7h 36m€68–285Train
- Take the train from Lugano to Zuerich Hbtrain Ec
- Take the train from Zuerich Hb to Linz Hbftrain Rjx
9h 32m€123–207Bus, train
- Take the bus from Lugano Via Giacomo and Filippo Ciani to St. Gallen Lagerstrassebus RegioJet 22
- Take the train from Bregenz to Linz Hbftrain Rjx
14h 15m€93–199Train, bus to Il Caravaggio International Airport, fly to Vienna International Airport
- Take the train from Lugano to Milano Centraletrain
- Take the bus from Piazza Luigi di Savoia to Milan Bergamo Orio al Serio Airportbus
- Fly from Il Caravaggio International Airport (BGY) to Vienna International Airport (VIE)plane BGY - VIE
- Take the train from Flughafen Wien to Linz Hbftrain
7h 44m€85–376Train to Milano Malpensa Airport, fly to Munich International Airport, train
- Take the train from Lugano to Malpensa Aeroporto T1train
- Fly from Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP) to Munich International Airport (MUC)plane MXP - MUC
- Take the train from Muenchen Ost to Linz Hbftrain
9h€98–295Train to Milano Malpensa Airport, fly to Václav Havel Airport Prague, train
- Take the train from Lugano to Malpensa Aeroporto T1train
- Fly from Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP) to Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)plane MXP - PRG
- Take the train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Linz Hbftrain
10h 29m€68–251Train to Milan Linate Airport, fly to Munich International Airport, train
- Take the train from Lugano to Seregnotrain
- Fly from Milan Linate Airport (LIN) to Munich International Airport (MUC)plane LIN - MUC
- Take the train from Muenchen Ost to Linz Hbftrain
9h 22m€111–408Train, train to Saint Gallen-Altenrhein Airport, fly to Vienna International Airport
- Take the train from Lugano to Zürich HBtrain
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Rorschachtrain
- Fly from Saint Gallen-Altenrhein Airport (ACH) to Vienna International Airport (VIE)plane ACH - VIE
- Take the train from Flughafen Wien to Linz Hbftrain
9h 17m€361–790
Lugano to Linz by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Lugano to Linz is to bus which costs €40 - €75 and takes 10h 20m.
The fastest way to get from Lugano to Linz is to drive which takes 6h 40m and costs €110 - €170.
No, there is no direct bus from Lugano to Linz. However, there are services departing from Lugano and arriving at Linz Industriezeile via Munich central bus station. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 10h 20m.
No, there is no direct train from Lugano to Linz. However, there are services departing from Lugano and arriving at Linz Hbf via Zuerich Hb. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 9h 28m.
The distance between Lugano and Linz is 770 km. The road distance is 644.1 km.
The best way to get from Lugano to Linz without a car is to train via Zurich which takes 9h 28m and costs €140 - €300.
It takes approximately 9h 28m to get from Lugano to Linz, including transfers.
Lugano to Linz bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Lugano station.
Lugano to Linz train services, operated by Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS), depart from Lugano station.
The best way to get from Lugano to Linz is to train via Zurich which takes 9h 28m and costs €140 - €300. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs €40 - €75 and takes 10h 20m.
What companies run services between Lugano, Switzerland and Linz, Austria?
You can take a train from Lugano to Linz Hbf via Zürich HB and Zuerich Hb in around 9h 28m. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Lugano to Linz Industriezeile via Munich central bus station in around 10h 20m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Milan Linate Airport to Vienna International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 43m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–240
Flights from Milan Linate Airport to Vienna International Airport via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Tuesday to Friday
- Estimated price
- €100–460
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–320
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Munich International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–210
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–370
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–450
Flights from Milan Linate Airport to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €55–280
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Milan Linate Airport to Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–240
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–320
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–240
Flights from Milan Linate Airport to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €55–280
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Milan Linate Airport to Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €30–140
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €40–160
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 29m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €28–110
- Website
- airdolomiti.it
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–320
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Tuesday to Sunday
- Estimated price
- €90–450
Flights from Milan Linate Airport to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 7m
- When
- Tuesday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €75–180
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Il Caravaggio International Airport to Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €30–180
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Munich International Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–270
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 36m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–240
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Milan Linate Airport to Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–240
- Website
- peoples.ch
Flights from Saint Gallen-Altenrhein Airport to Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €240–450
- Website
- croatiaairlines.com
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Zagreb
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €75–250
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Lugano to Zürich HB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 53m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €60–180
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Lugano to Seregno
- Ave. Duration
- 56 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €19–55
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Lugano to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €26–80
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Zürich HB to Rorschach
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 19m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €35–110
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Zuerich Hb to Linz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 35m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €80–120
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- €80–120
Train from Flughafen Wien to Linz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 41m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €30–50
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- €30–50
Train from Bregenz to Linz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 35m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €70–110
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- €70–110
- Phone
- +39 02 7249 4494
- my-link@trenord.it
- Website
- trenord.it
Train from Lugano to Seregno
- Ave. Duration
- 56 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €4–6
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
Train from Lugano to Malpensa Aeroporto T1
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €6–8
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Flughafen Wien to Linz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 54m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €24–55
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket?cref=oebb-header
Train from Muenchen Ost to Linz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 59m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €30–70
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket?cref=oebb-header
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- ufficiogruppi@trenitalia.it
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Lugano to Zuerich Hb
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €40–90
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- 1st Class
- €60–90
- 2nd Class
- €40–60
- Phone
- +43 1 89900
- meinenachricht@westbahn.at
- Website
- westbahn.at
Train from Bregenz to Linz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 29m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €95–160
- Website
- https://westbahn.at/en/
Train from Muenchen Ost to Linz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 36m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €50–85
- Website
- https://westbahn.at/en/
- Phone
- +48 22 322 22 22
- infokraj@intercity.pl
- Website
- intercity.pl
Train from Muenchen Ost to Linz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 58m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €40–95
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
- Phone
- +420 221 111 122
- info@cd.cz
- Website
- cd.cz
Train from Muenchen Ost to Linz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 58m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €28–50
- Website
- https://www.cd.cz/en/default.htm
Train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Linz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 53m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €30–55
- Website
- https://www.cd.cz/en/default.htm
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Linz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €60–110
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Lugano to Munich central bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €27–50
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Munich central bus station to Linz Industriezeile
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €15–27
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +420 222 222 221
- info@regiojet.cz
- Website
- regiojet.com
Bus from Lugano to Munich central bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 40m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €26–40
- Website
- https://regiojet.com/
Bus from Lugano Via Giacomo and Filippo Ciani to St. Gallen Lagerstrasse
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €19–29
- Website
- https://regiojet.com/
- Phone
- +359 700 20 544
- Website
- ardatur.bg
Bus from Munich central bus station to Linz Industriezeile
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €16–25
- Website
- https://ardatur.bg/en/
- customerservices@terravision.eu
- Website
- terravision.eu
Bus from Piazza Luigi di Savoia to Milan Bergamo Orio al Serio Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €5–25
- Website
- https://www.terravision.eu/
- info@flibco.com
- Website
- flibco.com
Bus from Piazza Luigi di Savoia to Milan Bergamo Orio al Serio Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €8–21
- Website
- https://www.flibco.com/en
- Phone
- +39 02 3008 9000
- mail@autostradale.it
- Website
- autostradale.it
Bus from Piazza Luigi di Savoia to Milan Bergamo Orio al Serio Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €4–8
- Website
- https://autostradale.it/?lang=en-GB
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Lugano to Linz bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Munich central bus station.
Lugano to Linz train services, operated by Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS), arrive at Zürich HB station.
Yes, the driving distance between Lugano to Linz is 644 km. It takes approximately 6h 40m to drive from Lugano to Linz.
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